Articles of Banned & Challenged Books
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The articles highlight a growing controversy in the United States: the banning and challenging of books, including both classic literature and contemporary works. This issue spans a wide range of concerns, from debates over racial representation and the teaching of antiracism, as seen in challenges to books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and discussions in school districts, to broader concerns about censorship and freedom of expression. The targeted books encompass diverse authors and genres, including Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Maya Angelou's works, and even A Wrinkle in Time, reflecting a complex and evolving landscape of literary censorship.
- "Banned & Challenged Classics" (American Library Association)
- "Banned Books Week 2021: Banned Classics" (John Gray Park '28 Library')
- "California School District Considers Ban on Classic Books" (National Coalition Against Censorship)
- "Book censorship in the United States" (Wikipedia)
- "American classics among most ‘challenged’ books of the decade in US" (The Guardian)
- "They're trying to ban 'Maus': Why you should read it and these 30 other challenged books" (USA Today)
- "In Burbank schools, a book-banning debate over how to teach antiracism" (Los Angeles Times)
- "Burned and Banned, Classic Books Still Available to Be Read" By Jhoana T. Merino-Martinez (The Equinox)
- "Bannings and Burnings in History" (Freedom to Read)
- "Poetry's Place in the History of Banned Books" (Poets.org)
- Banned & Challenged Classics (ALA)
- BANNED: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (PBS)
- "The War on Truth" By Ishena Robinson (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.)
- "Challenging and Banning Literary Classics" (Virginia Tech)
- "Fight for Your Right to Read" By Anne Rouyer (New York Public Library)
- "Opportunities Off the Shelves: Banned Books" By Maggie Coffey and Reilly Gaunt (Breaking Blue)
- "Movement to ban — or even burn — school library books gains momentum" (The Hill)
- "America ends 2021 with censorship surge. Will 2022's new year be better?" By Dennis Aftergut (NBC News)
- "Banned and Burned: Banning books should be a thing of the past" (The News Record)
- "Little House, Big Problem: What To Do with “Classic” Books That Are Also Racist" (School Library Journal)
- "Anti-CRT Mania and Book Bans are the Latest Tactics to Halt Racial Justice" by Marva Hinton (LDF)
- America’s First Banned Book (Banned Book Awareness)
- Now they're after Homer's Odyssey? Get a grip. (The Register-Guard)
- Maya Angelou – the most banned author in the US (New African)
- Madeleine L’Engle, “A Wrinkle in Time” (Carnegie Mellon University)
- A Brief History of Stupid Book Bans, from Twelfth Night to Where’s Waldo? (Time)
- "Banned Books: Shakespeare Censored!" (Occidental College)
- The Christian Commonwealth By John Eliot (UNL Digital Commons)
- The Odyssey By Homer (MIT Internet Classics Archive)
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale By Herman Melville (Project Gutenberg)
- Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare(Project Gutenberg)
- The New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (Project Gutenberg)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Project Gutenberg)
- A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle (Project Gutenberg)